The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.